CAF:Common Assessment Framework for Children and Young People, a process whereby practitioners can identify a child's or young person's needs early, assess those needs holistically, deliver coordinated services and review progress.

CAMHS: Children’s and Adolescents’ Mental Health Services

CHD: Coronary Heart Disease

CMO: Chief Medical Officer

CO: Carbon Monoxide

COPD: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

CO2: Carbon Dioxide

CRI: the service provider commissioned for substance abuse services in Lewisham

CVD: Cardiovascular Disease

(C) YP: (Children and) Young People. Official definitions vary according to legal context. For the Young People’s Specialist Treatment Substance Abuse Needs Assessment the term refers to all people under the age of 18

NDTMS: National Drug Treatment Monitoring System, which provides access to national statistics about Drug and Alcohol Misuse Treatment. NDTMS forms part of the work of the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse.

NEET: Not in Education, Employment or Training

NHS: National Health Service

NICE: National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence

NTA: National Treatment Agency, a Special Health Authority, established by the UK government to increase the availability, capacity and effectiveness of drug treatment in England.

ONS: Office for National Statistics

OT: Occupational Therapy

PCO: Primary Care Organisation

PCT: Primary Care Trust

QOF: Quality and Outcomes Framework

RTA: Road Traffic Accident

SEND: Special Educational Needs and Disability

SHA: Strategic Health Authority

SLC: Speech, Language and Communication

SLT: Speech and Language Therapy

SMR: Standard Mortality Rate

SOA: Super Output Area

TB: Tuberculosis

TfL: Transport for London

TIA: Transient Ischaemic Attack

TOPS: (in the context of substance abuse services) Treatment Outcomes Profiles. The TOP is a 20 item measure developed by the National Treatment Agency that focuses on four important treatment domains as defined in the NTA care planning practice guide: Substance use, Injecting risk behaviour, Crime, and Health & social functioning

UK: United Kingdom

WHO: World Health Organisation

YOS: Youth Offending Service, a multi agency partnership which aims to prevent offending and re-offending through the provision of intervention programmes in support of court orders under the Crime and Disorder Act 1998